wrong display resolution, F16, eeepc 901, should be 1024x600

fred smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Tue Mar 6 16:53:15 UTC 2012


On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 02:08:09PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 03/03/2012 04:21 AM, fred smith wrote:
> > the 901 is 8.9 inches, and natively does 1024x600.
> > 
> > I've used Fedora 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 on it extensively, and F15
> > for testing and they all detected it properly.
> 
> That's very worrying, because I was about to upgrade myself.  I think
> I'll install onto an SD card to test it first.
> 
> Andrew.

Yes, good idea. I installed onto an external USB HD for testing
purposes.

Please post your results here.

in addition, it doesn't seem to include a driver for the wireless
chipset. to the best of my memory, fedora 14 did, but I'm not 100%
certain of that at this point in time.

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